| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet L. Let others sing of Knights and Palladins | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | LET others sing of Knights and Palladins, | |
| In agèd accents, and untimely words! | |
| Paint shadows, in imaginary lines! | |
| Which well the reach of their high wits records: | |
| But I must sing of Thee! and those fair eyes! | 5 |
| Authentic shall my verse, in time to come, | |
| When yet the unborn shall say, “Lo, where she lies! | |
| Whose beauty made him speak, that else was dumb!” | |
| These are the arks, the trophies I erect, | |
| That fortify thy name against old age; | 10 |
| And these, thy sacred virtues must protect | |
| Against the dark, and Time’s consuming rage. | |
| Though th’error of my youth, they shall discover; | |
| Suffice they shew I lived, and was thy lover! | | | | |
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